Aligning risks and coping appraisals to kick off local climate action
Abstract
The main research question of the ACCORD project is: How do local stakeholders in climate active and inactive municipalities differ with regard to their risk and coping appraisal? How can a collective understanding of climate risk and coping potential increase local climate action and the efficiency of climate-related policy instruments? ACCORD’s novelty is based on the amalgamation of Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) with the Transformative Governance Approach. PMT is well recognised for its capacity to explain individual action to natural hazards, and therefore to trace how (in-)congruence in appraisals leads to (in-)congruence in action between local stakeholders. ACRONYM investigates the question on three layers: (i) how respective local actors appraise risks and coping options; (ii) how their respective appraisals trigger and permanently establish climate action, inaction or even maladaptation; and (iii) how individual appraisals can be integrated to a collective understanding and are associated with swifter and broader implementation of effective local climate policy.
keywords climate governance regional development comparative case study local climate action stakeholder engagement
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Project staff
Marianne Penker
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Marianne Penker
marianne.penker@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73115
Project Leader
01.02.2023 - 31.01.2025
Maria Elisabeth Schauppenlehner-Kloyber
Mag. Dr. Maria Elisabeth Schauppenlehner-Kloyber Bakk.rer.nat.
elisabeth.schauppenlehner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73117
Project Staff
01.02.2023 - 31.01.2025
Magdalena Wachter-Karpfinger
Dipl.-Ing. Magdalena Wachter-Karpfinger
magdalena.wachter@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73112
Project Staff
01.02.2023 - 31.01.2025
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Joanneum Research
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Energiepark Bruck a.d. Leitha
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